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Choosing a Cosmic Name
Science, Maths & Technology

Choosing a Cosmic Name

...classes or potentially significant objects, but more or less any name can be proposed so long as it satisfies a few simple rules.The already established convention for the naming of planets after ancient deities was officially adopted by the IAU. English astronomer Sir William Herschel, the discoverer of the seventh plant in 1781, had suggested “Georgium Sidus”, or...
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Article 10 mins
How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?
Education & Development

How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?

...class degree in 2021/22, only 60% of Black students and 70% of Asian students did so (Higher Education Statistics Agency [HESA], 2023). This awarding gap remains even when prior qualifications are accounted for (see, for example, Richardson et al., 2015). So it’s not because Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students are not sufficiently qualified when they start their...
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Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...class of nine- and ten-year-olds in Toronto, Canada. The curriculum focus is biology. The classroom has been carefully organised to mirror the way in which a real adult scientific research community operates at the University of Toronto's zoological department, local to the school. Over a ten-week period, the young students are given the opportunity to become immersed in...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Has Jeremy Corbyn saved Labour simply by standing for election?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn saved Labour simply by standing for election?

...class DE, social housing renters, some black and minority ethnic voters and other hard-to-reach groups. That would mean not only that fewer constituencies were Labour-winnable, but that there were simply fewer potential Labour supporters registered in 2020. Stacking the deck The strategy is well underway. First was the ERA Bill’s proposal to change voter registration...
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Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...classes their young people regularly did to give what they often describe as a ‘healthy life-work balance'. _Most people who don't home ed just don’t understand how it works. For us it was definitely not like school, it was about finding your passion, figuring out what choices/interests our children wanted for themselves – de-schooling, so not sitting doing work...
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Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...class solidarity. The Timex workforce, who felt valued, who had real skills and were predominantly women, were suddenly finding themselves facing the fact that their bosses did not care about them. If they weren’t going to make a profit, then they would be discarded and cast aside. And it was that sense of injustice, and a belief that workers should have dignity that...
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Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...de la Rue (c.1452–1518) (you will learn more about La Rue’s work later on). You can see the tenor and bass parts of the piece, as presented in the manuscript, in Figure 3. Activity 3 Now compare the images in Figures 3 and 4 of pages selected from each manuscript. How do these differ in their appearances? Are they decorated or do they just present the music? What...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...classes. At the same time, the dissemination of cheap, seditious literature, such as Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man (1791), suggested to the ruling elite that the acquisition and use of the skills of reading and writing needed to be controlled. A growing number of philanthropic individuals and groups sought to combat poverty, radicalism and crime by teaching the poor and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs